| Rukwasuchus Temporal range: middle Cretaceous,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Archosauria |
| Clade: | Pseudosuchia |
| Clade: | Crocodylomorpha |
| Clade: | Crocodyliformes |
| Clade: | †Notosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecosuchia |
| Clade: | †Sebecia |
| Family: | †Peirosauridae |
| Genus: | †Rukwasuchus Sertich & O’Connor, 2014 |
| Type species | |
| †Rukwasuchus yajabalijekundu Sertich & O’Connor, 2014
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Rukwasuchus is an extinct genus of peirosaurid crocodyliforms known from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation of southwestern Tanzania. It contains a single species, Rukwasuchus yajabalijekundu.[1]
- ^ Sertich, J. J. W.; O’Connor, P. M. (2014). "A new crocodyliform from the middle Cretaceous Galula Formation, southwestern Tanzania". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (3): 576. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.819808. S2CID 16644660.